David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook

“Nobody will ever notice that Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture” Ed Wood once said, emphasizing the misconception of a film’s notion. Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell is categorized as a Romantic comedy film because of the relationship between two of the main characters. Considering the format of the story, the movie being characterized as a romantic comedy film is still quite skeptical. David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook breaks the traditional romantic comedy formula for not follow the “love triangle” format and its complex plotline.
To start, Silver Linings Playbook did not exhibit a love triangle format. It is common in a romantic comedy film to have a love triangle scenario

The camera pans through the people whom Pat Jr. and Tiffany delightedly embraced as they congratulate them. Medium close-up comes in as Pat Jr. embraces Tiffany. Tiffany holds a grip of them embracing each other but Pat Jr. gently lets go as his eyes concentrates to where Nikki’s table is. With a look of dismay, a point of view shot from Tiffany’s perspective follows as Pat Jr. approaches Nikki. Camera focuses back to Tiffany with a close up showing unexplainable feeling in her eyes. Once Pat Jr. reached Nikki, rack focus is shown from Tiffany’s position emphasizing Nikki and Pat Jr.’s meeting. A reaction shot between Pat Jr. and Nikki then follows as they start to communicate with each other, the camera then zooms in as Pat Jr. softly whispers to Nikki’s ears. Finally, the camera focuses back to Tiffany. Teary eyed, the song Misty by Johnny Mathis intensifies as Tiffany walks out of the site. Throughout this particular scene, impressions could be that Tiffany is in a love triangle between Pat Jr. and Nikki. However, the part where the camera zooms in to where Pat Jr. whispers to Nikki is the indication where he told her that